{"id":444,"date":"2011-05-25T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2011-06-25T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:30:01","slug":"beef-up-your-flange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/exhausts\/beef-up-your-flange","title":{"rendered":"beef up your flange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This XR3i challenge car came to us in need of a custom engineering job. The front pipe to his race exhaust had been supplied by another well known exhaust builder but the front flange wasn&#8217;t strong enough. It kept bending causing it to blow.\u00a0 Also the centre section of the exhaust wasn&#8217;t properly supported causing it to droop down and catch kerbs during the race. We gas flowed the manifold as far as regulations allowed and had a new flange laser cut from industrial strength steel. We designed and built a new smooth flow front pipe and centre section, then mounted them all with extra hangers and supports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"DSCF2501\" src=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"DSCF2508\" src=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This XR3i challenge car came to us in need of a custom engineering job. The front pipe to his race exhaust had been supplied by another well known exhaust builder but the front flange wasn&#8217;t strong enough. It kept bending causing it to blow.\u00a0 Also the centre section of the exhaust wasn&#8217;t properly supported causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,23,29,30],"tags":[118,119,58,31],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aa-sport","category-exhausts","category-race-news","category-track-day-toys","tag-escort","tag-front-pipe","tag-mainfold","tag-race-car"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}